The files (as described and tagged) replicate the analysis in Rudolph, L. and T. D�ubler: Holding Individual Representatives Accountable: The Role of Electoral Systems.

For the do-files to work directly, we suggest saving the files in subfolders according to the following structure:

Folder "create_continuous_treatment" with files (creation of continuous treatment variable used below): 
- continuous_indicator.do
- continuous_indicator.log
- presscoverage.dta

Folder "create_indiff2010_variable" with files (creation of indifference variable used below):
- indiff2010.dta
- survey_indifference2010.do
- survey_indifference2010.log

Folder "survey" with files (replication material for survey analysis in main text):
- cem_model43.dta   
- create_figure2.R  
- csu_smd_candidates_2013.dta
- figure2.tif       
- medw_candidatelist_edited.dta
- medw_out.dta      
- medw_out_forgraph.dta
- medw_raw.dta      
- survey_2014.do    
- survey_2014.log   

Folder "tables" with files (replication material for tables in main text and online appendix):

- aggregate_placebo.dta
- aggregate_treat.dta
- candidates_csu_replication.dta
- replication_OLPR.do
- replication_OLPR.log
- replication_SMD.do
- replication_SMD.log
- substantive_size.do
- substantive_size.log
- votes2013.dta    


The authors.